Chicago Full Moon Jam – 1st Gathering of the Year! May 6th 2012

Come on out to the Full Moon Celebration! One of Chicago’s wonderful peoples traditions, this is the 1st gathering on the year! We come together at the beach & have a huge drum circle, people dance & spin fire. This Sunday we will be heading from Zen Practice to the Full Moon Jam for all who wish to attend.

The Full Moon Jams’ unite performing artists and spectators through a love and appreciation of fire art. Encompassing myriad performance styles and tools, fire dancers from the greater Chicago area and Great Lakes share their creative gifts by the shore of Lake Michigan, set to the percussive beats of local musicians, in this unique and free to the public monthly event taking place through Spring and into Fall.

In Buddhism we see that all things are intrinsically connected, we have a deep respect for nature, & in the Zen tradition the moon is often spoken as a metaphor of awakening & enlightenment. This is event is a wonderful opportunity for us to celebrate planet Earth together!

Gather at 7pm – Jam begins 7:30 – Ending Time 10:15

LOCATION
The jam takes place ¼ mile south of the Foster Ave Turf Fields on the lakefront. The jam is NOT! at Foster Ave Beach. it is south of the beach, on the east side of the lakefront trail, in the big field. Approximate address: 5000N & Lake Shore Drive 60640

DIRECTIONS

BIKE
Take the lakefront trail North. If you hit Foster Ave beach, you’ve gone too far. Please be respectful of the park and its guests.

CAR
Lake Shore Drive to Foster Ave, go east (towards the Lake) on Foster Ave. When the street curves around to the right, follow it. The jam is a 1/4 mile down on the west side of the street. Parking is free but hard to come by due to the amount of spectators.

TRAIN
Red Line to Argyle. Walk towards the lakefront, under Lake Shore Drive via the viaduct and you emerge right at the jam.

BUS
146 bus will drop you off at Marine & Argyle or Marine & Ainslie. Walk towards the lakefront, under Lake Shore Drive (at Argyle) via the viaduct and you emerge right at the jam.

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Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, ‘one who knows the better way to live alone.’ Bhaddekaratta Sutta

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